Likes & Launch

This time of year I’m usually making resolutions just like everyone else. A wonderful holiday break traveling to see family and friends kept me present moment to moment, a complete treat. However, it kept me away from being too reflective, and left me with a head cold to kick off the New Year. A good reminder, that the ebb and flow of life means that expecting to meet all expectations all the time, even your own, is not always your choice. 

It’s worth remembering, expecting to always operate at 100% capacity is not possible. Maybe a day or two a quarter, but not everyday. Instead, systematic small steps is how you get to 100% over time. So you can operate at 75% of your capacity but complete 100% of your goal. 

Goals can be big and scary, you might as well because they will likely take as much effort and energy. It will probably also push you to think more about leverage of your time. If a goal is smaller, say accomplishing 10 blog posts, then you may feel more pressure and time constraint to do those things with little strategy on how to do it. It’s brute force and it will take, let’s say, 25 hours, 2.5 hours per post. 

Instead, if you said you’re going to spend 25 hours writing 25 blog posts, what would it push you to consider? That constraint could push you to think about shorter posts, breaking a broad topic into smaller pieces, or even co-authoring posts so that you cut down on your personal time of editing and add more connections. 

Bigger goals can help push us to better outcomes, even if we fail to reach them.

Say you spend 25 hours and write 20 posts instead of 10, isn’t that still better than 10 for 25 hours? You doubled your goal by being more strategic with your time.

Output over a given amount of time is not the only measure of success but it is often one of the most expensive trades we make. If you get better at spending time wisely, you earn more time.

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